| Abstract: | The new Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sherbrooke accepted its first 32 students in September 1966. The four major objectives of the school are: (1) medical education with emphasis on learning rather than teaching; (2) research in three major fields of endeavour: basic, clinical and medico-social sciences; (3) optimum patient care; and (4) service to society. A new Health Sciences Centre houses the Medical School, 1 420-bed hospital and multidisciplinary laboratories, and eventually will contain the paramedical schools, including a School of Nursing Sciences. The three major divisions of the Faculty are basic, clinical and medico-social sciences. The curriculum of the first two years is correlated and integrated within the “block” system, with participation from all three divisions. |
